GCSE OCR Physics B Paper 1

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#1. Which of the following are reasons why hydroelectric dams are problematic?

Select all that apply:

#2. What is wavelength?

#3. Cobalt is a magnetic material – true or false?

#4. Calculate the momentum of a vehicle with a mass of 1500kg and a velocity of 35m/s. Add the units “kg m/s” after your answer ? momentum equation is available in the description below the quiz

#5. Is geothermal renewable?

#6. What does E represent in the equation for work done?

#7. A crane raises a concrete bucket 12m into the air. The bucket including the cement weighs 850N. Calculate the work done. Answer to 1d.p and include the units. ? Do not include your workings in your answer

#8. Complete the sentence: Stopping distances are made up of the sum of braking distance and …….. distance.

#9. Conventional current goes from:

#10. For circular motion to take place there must be a resultant force that acts towards the centre of the circle. What is the name of this force?

#11. Which of the following are problems with using biofuels as a replacement for oil?

Select all that apply:

#12. What is this component?

#13. What is the longest wavelength of visible light

#14. Which of the following is the source of coal?

#15. What is the freezing point of water?

#16. When a substance changes from a solid to a liquid, what happens to the mass?

Stays the same because there has been no change in the number of particles. We say that the mass has been conserved.

#17. What do we call energy that is stored in moving objects?

#18. Which greek letter represents density?

#19. Ernest Rutherford fired positive particles at a thin gold foil and showed that most of atoms is empty space. Which particles did he fire at the gold foil?

#20. Which of the following is a difference between circuit breakers and fuses?

#21. Is acceleration a vector or a scalar?

#22. True or false – electromagnetic waves cannot travel through water?

#23. What does F represent in the equation for work done?

#24. What is this component?

#25. Do ultraviolet rays have longer wavelengths than infrared waves?

#26. Is weight a vector or a scalar?

#27. What is the shortest wavelength of visible light

#28. What is the approximate radius of an atom?

#29. What do we use to slow the rate of heat loss out of a house?

#30. Is nuclear fission renewable?

#31. What is amplitude?

#32. What is this component?

#33. Which process fits the description? The warmer parts of a fluid rise and set up a current.

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#34. What is the function of a variable resistor?

#35. What is the purpose of fuses and circuit breakers?

#36. If a car is moving but the forces are balanced – what will happen to the speed of the car?

#37. Complete the equation for weight. W = m x ……..

#38. Is momentum a vector or a scalar?

#39. Cavity walls are often used to reduce heat loss through walls – why is this effective?

#40. Are biofuels renewable?

#41. Is coal a fossil fuel?

#42. Are electromagnetic waves transverse or longitudinal?

#43. Which of the following things were hypothesised by John Dalton in 1805? ? select 4 answers

Select all that apply:

#44. What are positrons?

#45. When a light wave enters glass or water from the air, does it refract towards or away from the normal line?

#46. What wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum have the most energy?

#47. Fill in the gap. In a parallel circuit, the current …… at a junction.

#48. Which of the following are ways that a magnetic field of an electromagnet can be made stronger?

Select all that apply:

#49. Calculate the forces involved in an accident where a 1650 kg car travelling at 20 m/s hits a wall and the car comes to a stop in 0.05 seconds. Use the following equation: Force = mass x final velocity – mass x initial velocity / t (include units in your answer)

#50. True or False – Scalar quantities only have magnitude?

#51. Does a circuit need to be closed for current to flow?

#52. Which form of radiation is least ionising?

#53. What is a battery?

#54. True or False – Vector quantities only have magnitude?

#55. Calculate the change in momentum of an object that experiences a force of 350 N over 15 s. Include the units “kg m/s” in your answer

#56. What is the function of a resistor?

#57. Does the total amount of current change from the positive to the negative terminal?

Because current is conserved.

#58. Is energy a vector or a scalar?

#59. What is Newton’s Third Law of Motion?

#60. What state of matter has particles which are far apart and move around independently?

#61. Fill in the blank – Thermal conductivity is the ability of a material to conduct or pass on heat through …….. with another material?

#62. What is the approximate radius of a nucleus?

#63. Which of the following is an advantage of crude oil?

Sankey Diagram Energy

#64. What is this Sankey Diagram showing?

#65. Is hydroelectric renewable?

#66. Which descriptions are correct?

Select all that apply:

#67. In transverse waves are the vibrations parallel or at right angles to the direction of wave travel?

#68. In 1897 JJ. Thomson did a series of experiments that led to the discovery of which particles?

#69. What is a resultant force?

#70. What devices are used to determine the shape of a magnetic field?

#71. True or False – Magnetic field lines are used to show how a single north pole would move from north to south?

#72. What is the shortest wavelength of electromagnetic radiation

#73. Which of the following is an advantage of non-renewable energy sources?

#74. An object with a mass of 5kg is 100m above the ground and has 35 J of gravitational potential energy. What will happen to the gravitational potential energy if the mass was increased to 10kg?

Direction of magnetic field and current along a wire

#75. This diagram shows the direction of a magnetic field caused by a current flowing through a conductor. Where is the magnetic field strongest?

#76. What is a beta particle?

#77. Which of the following devices do we use to measure weight? ? 2 answers

Select all that apply:

#78. Which of the following is a disadvantage of wind energy generation?

#79. Vectors have which of the following quantities?

#80. How can we describe the motion of the object in this graph between 7 and 10 seconds?

#81. Jack moves a cube weighing 250N. He moves the cube by 2.5m in a straight line. Calculate the work done by Jack. Answers to 1d.p, include the units. ? Do not include your workings in your answer

#82. In longitudinal waves are the vibrations parallel or at right angles to the direction of wave travel?

#83. Which factors does the angle of refraction depend on?

Select all that apply:

#84. What do we call the energy transferred by a force?

#85. True or false – electromagnetic waves travel at different speeds in different materials?

#86. What wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum is useful for security marking?

#87. What is acceleration?

#88. What is the name of the phase change from gas to solid?

#89. The melting point of gallium is 29.8˚C and the boiling point is 2204˚C. What state is gallium at 25˚C?

#90. What is current measured in?

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